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🦃 A Pre-Thanksgiving Wake-Up Call for CPA Firm Leaders

Killing the 80-Hour WorkweekHow Elite CPAs Scale by Impact

Give your practice the gift of time this Thanksgiving. Learn how leading CPA firms end busy-season burnout by pairing intentional rest with a white-label delivery team that cuts backend execution costs by 60%+.

Wednesday, November 11, 2026 12:00 PM EST / 9:00 AM PST 60 min · Live on Zoom

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Every registered firm qualifies for the $1,000 Thanksgiving Firm Transition Package.

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The 80-Hour Myth

The grind isn’t dedication. It’s a design flaw.

Public accounting has treated the 70-to-80-hour busy season as a badge of honor for decades. In reality, it is an operational failure: senior talent burned on data entry, reconciliations, and payroll.

It drains partners

Partners spend January to April reviewing work that never needed a senior desk, and pay for it in health and family time.

It drives staff out

Talented people leave the profession after one season too many. Every exit costs you training, client knowledge, and recruiting fees.

It degrades the work

Tired reviewers miss things. Client deliverables turn into rushed fire drills, and realization falls with them.

Thanksgiving Is the Inflection Point

What will you be thankful for in February?

The decisions that shape your busy season get made before Thanksgiving, not in January. Here’s the season most firms are heading into. Then switch to the one you could have.

Tap “The impact model” to see the difference

Partner hours per week70–80
Routine compliance on senior desksMost of it
Backend delivery costFull domestic rate
Time left for advisoryAlmost none

January arrives, the backlog wins, and you promise yourself next year will be different.

Illustrative comparison. Results depend on your firm’s mix of work.

The Agenda

A three-course briefing, served in 60 minutes.

First Course

Act I

The Operational Infrastructure

withAkshay Jain
  • The capacity paradox: messy books, hard deadlines, and expensive domestic hires
  • Claude AI workflows for document ingestion, data parsing, and reconciliations
  • Offshore pods that return review-ready work and cut execution costs 60%+
  • The pre-Q1 transition package, explained step by step
Main Course

Act II

The Mindset Shift: Impact Over Hours

withJohn Briggs, CPA
  • The 80-hour myth: why the grind is an operational flaw, not a badge of honor
  • The 3.3 Rule: focused blocks of up to three hours, each followed by real recovery
  • Escaping the hourly billing trap: pricing engagements on business outcomes
Dessert

Act III

Fireside Clinic & Open Q&A

withBoth speakers
  • Remote data security and access controls
  • IRC Section 7216 consent and disclosure rules for offshore work
  • What a realistic 30-day onboarding looks like

What You Will Learn

Four takeaways to put to work before busy season.

01

Pre-Q1 Capacity Audit

How to line up your outsourced delivery capacity before Thanksgiving so January doesn't bring 80-hour weeks.

02

Take Breaks, Work Better

Build intentional recovery into the season to lift realization and protect your team's well-being.

03

60% Margin Strategy

Offload repetitive compliance so partners can win and lead recurring $5,000+/month CAS retainers.

04

Enterprise AI Workflows

Use Claude AI to speed up document parsing and review-ready prep work without loosening data controls.

Meet Your Hosts

The people helping you stop counting hours.

Monalika Jangra
Moderator

Monalika Jangra

Financial Influencer,
DNA Growth

Hosting the briefing & live Q&A

Monalika is a financial influencer who makes accounting, tax, and practice-management topics easy to act on. Her background as an analyst working with CPA firms and CFOs on margins and month-end workflows shapes the questions she asks. On November 11 she guides the conversation between Akshay and John and puts your questions to them in the closing Q&A.

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Akshay Jain
Lead Speaker

Akshay Jain

CEO & Managing Director, DNA Growth

Session: Building Capacity Without New Hires

How boutique practices pair Claude AI workflows with dedicated offshore pods to cut backend costs by 60%+ and move partners into high-margin advisory work. A Stanford alumnus, Akshay believes the next stage of growth for CPA and CFO firms comes from better delivery, not bigger teams.

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John Briggs, CPA
Guest Expert

John Briggs, CPA

Author & Founder, Incite Tax & Accounting

Session: The Anti-Burnout Playbook

John is the author of Take Breaks, Work Better and the founder of Incite Tax & Accounting. A former Deloitte tax professional, he built Incite into a multimillion-dollar firm while keeping his team’s tax-season hours far below the industry norm, and he’ll share the system behind it, from his 3.3 Rule to measuring impact instead of hours.

Take Breaks, Work Better: Measure Impact, Not Hours, and Transform Your Profitability Get the book on Amazon LinkedIn

Exclusive Attendee Incentive · $1,000 Value

The Thanksgiving Firm Transition Package

Every registered firm qualifies for $1,000 in professional services: 20 hours of hands-on white-label onboarding and transition support, so you can test the model before the January rush.

20 Hours of White-Label Support

Pilot offloading routine bookkeeping, AR/AP, payroll, or month-end close prep to our offshore team.

Workflow Integration Review

Step-by-step guidance on fitting Claude-enabled automation into the tech stack your firm already runs.

Security & Compliance Review

A walkthrough of data access, ISO 27001 controls, and IRC Section 7216 consent requirements.

Claim Your Thanksgiving Practice Pass + $1,000 Transition Bonus

One package per registered firm. Redemption details are shared live during the session.

Who Should Attend

Built for the people who sign the P&L.

Managing Partners

Protect margins and your own calendar going into Q1.

Boutique CPA Owners

Firms of 10–200 people that need capacity, not headcount.

Sole Practitioners

Add a delivery team without making your first hire.

Fractional CFOs

Free your hours for advisory, not month-end prep.

Before You Register

Questions, answered.

Is the briefing free?

Yes. Registration is complimentary, and every registered firm qualifies for the $1,000 Thanksgiving Firm Transition Package.

What if I can't make it live?

Register anyway. Everyone who registers gets the full recording and the Q1 Capacity Audit Checklist after the session.

How do I redeem the $1,000 transition package?

Akshay walks through redemption live during his segment, and the details follow by email. It covers 20 hours of hands-on white-label onboarding and transition support.

Where is it hosted?

Live on Zoom. Your joining link is emailed to you before the session.

Will you cover data security?

Yes. The final segment is an open clinic on remote data security, IRC Section 7216 consent rules, and 30-day onboarding milestones. Bring your questions.

Carve out 60 minutes before you carve the turkey.

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